Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-12-05
Is THE HEART RIGHT ?
THE QU ESTI0N DR.. TALMAGR ASKED HIS
HEARERS YESTERDAY.
The Saluad5n from the Ghariot-ksu are By
Nature All Slhl-The Heart Must bs
Cbanged-Toachsd by the Divinils Rod
Of sn All Saving Chris
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BROOKLYN, December 4.--This is Sacra-
mental day in Brooklyn Tabernacle The
more than four thousand communicant
members and many strangers from all parts
Of the world make it memorable scene.
New members were received, and some Of
them were baptised this morning.
The congregation, led by organ and cor
net, sang:
Dear dying Lamb, thy precious blood
Shall never lose its power
Till all the rsnsomed church OF God
Be saved TO sin no more"
The Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage, D. D.,
preached. His subject was ''Salutation
fro,a the Chariot" and his text II. Kings,
chap. 10, v. Is: is thine heart right?"
With mettled horses at full speed, for he
was celebrated for fast driving, Jehu, the
warrior and king returns from battle. But
seeing Jehonadab, an acquaintance, by the
wayside, he shouts whoa whoa ~ to the
lathered span. Then leaning over to Je-
honadab, Jehu salutes him in the words of
the text-words not more appropriate for
that hour and that place than for this hour
and place.
Is thine heart right? | should like to
hear OF your physical health. Well, my
self, like to have everybody else well; !;
and so might ask, is your eyesiGht right,
your hearing right, your nerves right, your
lungs right, your entire body right? But
| am busy to-day taking diagnosis of the
more important spiritual conditions.
should like to hear of your financial
welfare. want every body to have plenty
of money, ample apparel, large storehouse,
aud comfortable reSid noes, and might
ask, Il your business right, your income
right, Your worldly surroundings right?
But what are these financial questions com.
pared with the inquiry as to whether you
have been able to pay your debts to God;
as to whether you are insured for eternity;
as to VIII ther yuu are running yourself by
the long credit system Of the soul? have
known men 10 have no more than one loaf
of bread at a time, and yet 10 own gov
eminent bond OF heaven worth more than
the whole material universe.
The question | ask you to-day is not in
regard to your habits. l make no inquiry
about your integrity, or your chastity, or
your sobriety. do not mean to stand on
the outside OF the gate and ring the bell;
but coming up the steps l open the door
and come TO the private apartment of the
eou,; and with the earnestness of man
that must give an account for this days
work, cry out, Oh, man. oh, woman i'm
mortal; is thine healt right?
Will not insult You hy an alignment to
prove that We are
BY NATURE ALL WRONG.
Ii there be a factory explosion, and the
smOke-stack be upset, and the wheels he
broken in two, and the engine unj0inted,
and the pOnderous bars be twisted. and
man shonld look in and say that nothing
was the matter, You would pronounce him
fool. Well, it needs no acumen ~ dis
cover that our nature is all atwist and
askew and unjointed. The thing doesn't
w0rk right The biggest trouble we have
! in the world is with our souls.
| Men sometimes say that though their
lives may not be Just right, their heart IS
all right Impossible! a farmer never
puts the poorest apples on top OF his bar
rel; nor does the merchant place the mean.
est goods in his show window. The best
part OF us is our outward life. do not
| stop 10 discuss whether we all fell in
| Adam, for we have been our own Adam,
and have all eaten OF the forbidden fruit,
and have been turned out OF the paradise
of holiness and peace; and though the
| flaming sword that stood at the gate to
keep us ont has changed position and
comes behind to drive us in, we will
not 90.
The Bible account of US is not exagger-
ated when it says we are poor and wretch
ed, and miserable, and blind, and naked.
| Poor-the wretch that stands shivering on
our doorstep OH o cold day is not go much
in need of bread as We are of spiritual help.
Blind-why, the man whose eyes peri6hed
in the powder blast, and who for these ten
years has gone feeling his way from street
| to street, is not in such utter darkness as
we, Naked-why, there is not one rag Of
holiness left to hide the shame of our sin.
Sick-why, the leprosy has eaten into the
head and the heart, and the hands aad the
feet; and the marasmus of an everlasting
wasting away has already seized on some
of us.
But the meanest thing for a man to do
| is to discourse about an evil without point
ing a way to have it remeded. speak
of the thirst OF
YOUR HOT TONGUE
only that | may show you the living
stream that drops crystalline and spark
ling from the rock of ages aud pours o
river of gladness at your feet. If show
YOU the rents in your coat, it is only be-
cause the door of Gods wardrobe now
swings open. and here is robe, white
with the fleece of the Lamb of God, and OF
n cut and make that an angel would not
| nc ashamed to wear. If | snatch from you
the black, mouldy bread that you are
munchiug, 1t il only to give y0u the
bread made out Of the finest wheat that
grows on the celestial hills, and baked in
the fires of the cross, and one crumb OF
NutCA hbulu Ot CuOhBh ~ MANI AAA
heaven a banquet. Hear it, one and al,
and tell it to your friends when you 20
home, that the Lord Jesus Christ eau make
the heart right.
First we need repenting heart. If for
the last ten, twenty, or forty years of life
We have been going on in the wrong way,
it is time that we turned around and
started in the opposite direction. If we
offended our friends we are glad TO apollo.
gize. God is our best friend, and yet how
many of Us have never apologiZed for the
wrongs we have done Him.
There is nothing that we so much need
to get rid of as sin. 1t is horrible black
monster. II polluted Eden. 1t killed
Christ. 1t has blasted the world. Men
keep dogs i'll kennels, and rabbits in war.
ren, and cattle in a pen. What man that
would shut them up in his parlor. But
this foul dog of sin, and these herds Of
transgression, we have entertained for many
q long year In our heart, which shoald be
the cleanest, brightest room in all our ua-